Word: combated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lunch Break. Few were spared. Stragglers were shot down as they fled from their burning huts. One soldier fired his M-79 grenade launcher into a clump of bodies in which some Vietnamese were still alive. One chilling incident was observed by Ronald L. Haeberle, 28, the Army combat photographer who had been assigned to C Company.* He saw "two small children, maybe four or five years old. A guy with an M-16 fired at the first boy, and the older boy fell over to protect the smaller one. Then they fired six more shots. It was done very...
...Washington to cry out for liberty, for freedom, for peace," she said. The New Mobe organizers had recruited others who had lost loved ones in the war, but some gold-star families wanted none of it. In Philadelphia and Dallas, groups of mothers and widows of G.I.s killed in combat obtained court orders to bar use of the men's names by the protesters...
Three hundred combat-equipped federal paratroopers moved into the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service Building next door at noon before today's demonstration in support of the Chicago Eight. Two dozen marines guarded the Capitol today, and Washington police were especially stationed in front of foreign embassies and ambassadors' homes...
...Soviet Writers Union recently yielded to party pressure to expel Solzhenitsyn from the organization. The move was taken to punish the 50-year-old author for "conduct unbecoming a Soviet writer," for "actively using the bourgeois anti-Soviet press for anti-Soviet propaganda," and for failing to combat the use of his name abroad. Since the ouster places a stigma on Solzhenitsyn, it means, in effect, that no Soviet editor would dare accept his works for publication...
Robert G. English, Swansea's 35-year-old public school superintendent, expects eventually to combat the threat of private schools in his district through widespread use of federal funds, particularly for remedial reading and special classes for slow learners. That way, he hopes, newly integrated black children will be able to catch up to the norm without holding up the education of better-prepared whites. "If we can show white parents that this massive integration can work without damaging their children's education," says English, "I think the public school will come out strong." That is a very...